After a couple of times when i was requested to make a drag and drop UI for a client.
After countless hours of searching in which i came up with 20 examples of implementation by way of surface views and bitmaps (an implementation that i really didn't like), and all the while i see countless comments of frustrated people with the same problem as me, i decided to implement this my way and then release it back so that at least once this solution will be in public domain.
so, i hope this helps someone.

[syntax="java"]
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuInflater;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.MotionEvent;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnTouchListener;
import android.widget.FrameLayout;
import android.widget.Toast;
import android.widget.FrameLayout.LayoutParams;

public class dnd extends Activity
{
public FrameLayout board;
public View pawn;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

board = new FrameLayout(this);
pawn = new View(this);

setContentView(R.layout.main);

board = (FrameLayout)findViewById(R.id.Board);
pawn = findViewById(R.id.Pawn);
pawn.setOnTouchListener(dragt);


}//onCreate

OnTouchListener dragt = new OnTouchListener()
{
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event)
{
FrameLayout.LayoutParams par = (LayoutParams) v.getLayoutParams();
switch(v.getId())
{//What is being touched
case R.id.Pawn:
{//Which action is being taken
switch(event.getAction())
{
case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
{
par.topMargin = (int)event.getRawY() - (v.getHeight());
par.leftMargin = (int)event.getRawX() - (v.getWidth()/2);
v.setLayoutParams(par);
break;
}//inner case MOVE
case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
{
par.height = 40;
par.width = 40;
par.topMargin = (int)event.getRawY() - (v.getHeight());
par.leftMargin = (int)event.getRawX() - (v.getWidth()/2);
v.setLayoutParams(par);
break;
}//inner case UP
case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
{
par.height = 60;
par.width = 60;
v.setLayoutParams(par);
break;
}//inner case UP
}//inner switch
break;
}//case pawn
}//switch
return true;
}//onTouch
};//dragt
}

[syntax="xml"]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:id="@+id/Board" android:layout_gravity="top">

<View android:background="@drawable/icon"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:id="@+id/Pawn" android:layout_gravity="top">
</View>
</FrameLayout>

YOU JUST SAVED MY LIFE, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously hours and hours and hours of solutions that did not quite fit. This is exactly what I needed, THANK YOU!

Thanks for sharing, It is very useful to all programmer who is working on Android.

Thank you for sharing...

Need help. The idea that u gave is great thanks for the effort.
I learnt the art of Dragging .

Now i got stuck into problem. I think you are the right person to help me.
Problem Space:
I need to have a toolbar which has some images in it. Once the user clicks on any of the image i need to create a new image along the dragging path of the finger and start dragging into a new layer.
Since the toolbar will have a immovable images, we cannot move them out of the layer. Now the images will only be allowed to be dragged in the layer below.

I tried using ur code with various methods i could not achieve that.
Please help.

I am also trying to learn to make a drag and drop UI for a client. I was so frustrated with how difficult it was to create so many codes and then fix errors. I am a novice used so it was obvious. This helped me a lot for the project.



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